The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 02, 1934, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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Explains Attitude on
Teacher's Salaries
Laurens, S. C.
Feb. 23, 1934
Editor the Wateree Messenger:
An erroneous interpretation on the
part of some about my attitude concerning
an increase in teachers' salaries
has gone out as a result of thei
quotation of certain passages from
my lotter to the Honorable J. A.
Spruill. For that reason I consider
it wise to publish the entire text of
the lotter tor tho correct information
<if the citizenship generally.'
Of course I could- have gone to the
General Assembly and said to that
body you must do so and 90, thereby,
probably arousing a hostility which
would bo very hard to overcome. It
has ahuays been my opinion that a
smooth, gentlemanly approach to a
business proposition is soundest.
C. K. WRIGHT.
The text of"the letter follows:
Laurens, S. C.,
Jan. 31, 1934.
Honorable J. Spruill,
State House, v
' Columbia, South Carolina.
My dear Mr. Spruill: This lotter,
1 assure oou, is written out of a spirit
of cooperation and patriotic service.
There is at this time, so I am informed,
a Bill pending in the General
Assembly whereby teachers' salaries
would bo raised ten per cent for next
year, ami it is about this that I write.
The true teacher of tho State is not
only concerned about the welfare of
the schools, but in addition to this
institution, she is concerned about
the welfare of all legitimate departments
of State government. We are
therofre, not asking for anything this
year which will in any way placs in
jeopardy the credit of the State, its
taxing system, or any of its governmental
functions. However, if those
close to the facts feel that teachers
can be paid a little more without
placing any extra burden upon the
taxpayers of the State, and at the
same time carry on the other depart* '
ments of state, then there will be no
more appreciative body than will be
the teachers. On the other hand, if
the General Assembly feel that there
can be no increase at this time, the.
teachers will' carry on. We realize
more fully than any other group that
the children of the State must not
become vagrants upon the streets and
highways and a charge upon society.
We J.now that the schools must bi
kept open. We have demonstrated
that principle over the past two years
when the school would certainly
have closed but for the high patriotic
service of the teachers. Many of us
went month after month without compensation,
or the hope of compensa:<<n.
We are willing to sacrifice again
if the State calls Upon us to do it.,
Wo leave the case in the hands of our
friends in the General Assembly, feeling
that they will do the best they
can for the State at large.
If there is any information which
I can give, or if there is any suggestion
which you desire from the teachers,
I shall be pleased to cooperate
with you.
With kind personal regards and
best wishes, 1 am
Cordially yours,
C. K. WRIGHT,'
1'resident S. C. Education Association
"The Three Invisible Powers"
This will be the themo next Sunday,
morning for the Men's Bible Class at
the Methodist 'Sunday school. Notwithstanding
the inclement weather,
there were about fifty men present
last Sunday and heard Dr. Wimber;y's
great address of "Things Colossal."
It was a message that the men
will not soon forget. These address-!
s are, of such intense interest and
*ower,' that anyone who misses them
will miss something worthwhile. We
1,ope to have a full class attendance
next Sunday. Let .everyone invite
.mi'one not now attending. Hour,
'< a. m.-?Jack Moore, secretary.
Honor Roll For Midway
Grade 1.?William Horton, Laura
U-e Henry, Demmie Young, Betty
West.
Grade 2.?Myrtle Corbett, Sarah
Davis, Sarah Catherine Watkins, John
McCoy, Perry Lee McCoy, Ralph
Young.
Grade 3.?Colene H*ll.
Grade 6.?Pauline Catoe, Lurmell
Elliott, Myrtle Horton, Lewis Lea
West.
Grade 6.?Archie Gordon, Ferris
Joyner, J. R. Teal, Margaret West,
Margaret Yarborough.
Grade 7.?Thelma Brannon, Mary
Evelyn Hunnicutt, Elizabeth McCoy,
Roddy Rozier, Dolly Stokes.
' Grade 8.?Margarette Andersen,
Emily McCoy.
Grade 9.?Etehlyne Corbett, Ruth
Walters.
Grade 10.?Willie C. Andersont Oralie
Brannon, Martha Moaeley, Thelma
Stokes, Blanche Threatt,
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Nobody's Business
Written fer TSe CfcreaieU by Geo
M?Gee,> Copyrigfct, IMS.
WORSE THAN STATIC
. .iSome folks think that if a follow
can write a pieco for the newspapers
every day....he can speak in public,
preach a funeral, preside at a school
commencement, and lust but not .least
?give a radio program.
..A friend who did not know that. 1
could not talk face to face into a
microphone convinced mo that I
should uppear on a few programs to
be arranged by him. 1 fell for his
dope, and undertook the stunt a few
nights ago.
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, J hashed up a dozen notes that I
thought I could make a 12-mipute
speech with. .,/just jotted down a
word here and there on a card. The
time arrived; I was introduced. That
microphono looked n lileo a 44-Colt
pistol pointing into my face.
..The first thing happened was....
my mouth got so dry I couldn't even
whisper; the next trouble came when
my tongue clove to the roof of my
mouth, and then I began to sweat
great drops of perspiration. I couldn't
think what a single word on my
card meant.
.. I began to mumble something in
French; I shifted to Portugese, and
a minute later, I was using soft
Spanish and Yiddish words every
now and then. Anyway, what I
was saying was all Dutch to me. I
finally worked back to English, the
only language that I can use at all,
and that poorly.
..If that microphono had jumped at
me, or sneezed in my face, or simply
said "Ouch," I would have lit out the
window at my left, and I am sure I
would have been running yet. I was
never so scared in my life. Standing
up there talking into that little
hole was too much for me.
. .1 got thru at last. I was wringing
wet. My -hair was standing right
straight up on top of my bald head.
The second night, I wasn't quite so
pitiful with fright. 1 showed some
improvement with the third effort.
People are wonderful institutions.
Lots of my friends, thru sympathy,
no doubt?told me that. ."We certainly
enjoyed your talk."v Think of
nice folks who are willing to stretch
the truth a yard or so to help a guy
feel that mebbe he did say a few
good things o^er the radio after all.
GO GET 'EM JOHNSON
. . A man from a collecting agency
called at my office the other day and
endeavored to prove that he and his
folks could collect any debt . . . regardless
of age, color, what for, Why,
when and by whom contracted, dead
or alive.
. . He showed some statements where
he had actually sued a lawyer and
collected $55,000. I believed nearly
everything he said till he told that.
He got $20.00 from a corpse, and
followed 2 men and 3 women as far
a's Egypt, and held them with a mandamus
till they came -across with a
board ibill amounting to $4.35.
. . He was no respector of persons,
firms, institutions, or character. He
made a preacher pay a grocery bill
that had been running 22 years. He
said further that he could collect a
reasonable sized debt from a politician,
provided, of course, that the
said politician was still in office or
trying to get in. (No chance at all
when they are out.)
. . He had a stack of testimonials as
high as my knee. He wore a detective's
badge concealed under his
coat and that kept me scared put
nigh to death all of the time. I am
horribly afraid of the law. He intimated
that his agency could get
money out of rich folks on grocery
bills, funeral accounts and even for
doctors' bills, and so forth. Of
course, I didn't believe that.
. .His charges were as follows: $50.00
down when the accounts were sent in.
After he had collected $500.00, he
said I could deduct the $50.00 from
my last remittance. He explained
how he went after delinquent accounts.
He first wrote them a white
letter; that was followed in 10 days
with a blue letter, and if no cash was
forthcoming, he then wrote them a
red letter. Then he quit; if a man or
woman or farmer won't pay an account
after receiving hia "red letter"
the account waa then considered n. g.,
and loat.
..He told one big one that made me
think he was a complete fake. He
said that hia firm had collected newspaper
subscriptions 2 years after the
newspaper had been stopped, and had
also collected $4.00 from a man who
couldn't read for a magazine that he
had never seen. I have been knowing
for years and years that the only
way (generally speaking) for a
newspaper to get paid at all for a subscription
is and was , . . collect in
advance, and get the cash?not a
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Greensboro Badly
Hurt by Freeze-Up
"Greensboro, C., Fob. 27?Greensboro
began to return to normal today
after one of the greatest frecze-ups
in its history. As stock-taking began
indications were that damage
would mount into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
The city emerged from 24-hours
of helplessness this morning as electrical
service was resumed, and its
residents began to sum up their experiences.
It was the first time cities in this
area, uccustomod to comparatively
mild weather, and unprepared for
blizzards, had been so tied up since
the days of dependence on , modern
foqpis of cooking, communication and
transportation. I
Shortage of food Was the greatest
menace from Sunday night until this
morning. With electric refrigerators
and stoves not working, the supply
of gas running short, a real emergency
was faced for a few hours.
For 15 hours every house and business
establishment was dark. Were
without electricity, scores of families
were forced from their homes when
oil burning furnaces -were put out of
commission by tho power failure.
Thousands had not even their work
to warm them as manufacturing
plants, except for a small number
with auxiliary power plants, could
not operate.
Street traffic was badly hampered
and workers in the taller buildings
were forced to climb as many as 17
stories to candle and lamp-lit offices,
where they found themselves practically
helpless through lack of telephones.
Hotel and cafe men suffered nightmares,
theaters were closed entirely,
and silence held its greatest sway in
years as radios stood idle and orchestras
had no.light by which to road
their scores.
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Ninety-Nine Years
Given to Kidnapers
Chicago, Feb. ' 23.?With Roger
Touhy and two others sentenced to
99 years, the state of Illinois embarked
today on a relentless search to
corral other members of the Touhy
gang for the $70,000 John Factor
kidnaping.
While Touhy, Albert Kator, and
Gus Schaefer raged in their cells,
Prosecutor Wilbert F. Crowley announced
every state in the union
would be asked to assit in a hunt
for .Charles "Ice Wagon" Connors,
Joe Silvers and other members of
Touhy's notorious band of desperadoes.
The three convicts will not be eligible
for parole until 33 years are
served. Each is in his thirties.
In their cells today, they maintained
loudly that- they were innocent.
Crowley indicated Isaac Costner
and W. A. Henrichsen, who became
state's witnesses, might never have
to stand trial for the kidnaping. But
indicated there would be no mercy
for Basil "The Owl" Banghart, captured
with Costner in Baltimore recently.
Banghart, allegedly active in
the' Factor kidnaping, refused to testify
for the state.
Robert S. Mebane Dead
. Chester, Feb. 2(L?-Robert S. Meb- ,
ane, Sr., former president of the Re- ]
public Cotton Mills at Great Falls,
died in Pittsburgh, Pa., said word received
here today. Tentative funeral
arrangements call for services at
Greensboro, N. C., "Wednesday.
Mr. Mebane formerly was a banker
at Great Falls, and recently had been
connected with the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce at Washington.
Among survivors are his widow, ,
the former Miss Mira Hun; a son,
Robert S. Mebane, Jr., and a daughter,
Miss Miranda Mebane,
check. I did not subscribe for this
service . . .as everybody that I have
credited during the past 25 years
have paid their bills promptly when
due. (Please don't wake me up).
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND1
CREDITORS
All parties indebted to the estate
of John Mickle, deceased, are hereby
notified to mako payment to the undersized,
and all parties, if any,
having claims against the said estate
will present them likewise, duly attested,
within the time prescribed by
Law.
J. H. McLEOD,
Executor of the Estate of
John Mickle.
Camden, S. C., February 27th, 1934.
49->52sb
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
month fropi thia date, on the twentythird
day of March, 1934, at eleven
o'clock a. m., I will make to the Probate
Court of Kershaw County my
final accounting and return as Guardian
of the person and eatate of James
Kirkland Clyburn, deceased, and on
the same date I will apply to the said
court for a final discharge aa said
Guardian. W. R. CLYBURN,
Guardian of the Person and Estate
of James Kirkland Clyburn,
J.
Camden, ?. C., Feb. 23, 1934.
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Passenger Plane
Wrecked In Utah
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Salt Lake City, Feb. 25.?The bodies
of seven men and a woman were
found tonight in the wreckage of a
United Air liner which crashed on a
flight from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne,
Wyo.
Rescue parties pushed through the
snow from 'Salt Lake City after the
smashed airplane was sighted from
the air at dusk, and flashed back the I
news that the craft's five passengers
urfd crew of three were dead.
, Pilot Lloyd Anderson, a 32-yearold
flier with V.OOO hours' experience,
apparently had brushed the plane
against a knoll in seeking to surmount
the Wasatch mountains or the
plane had developed mechanical
trouble in the murky weather Friday.
Apparently the group met death
instantly.
The body of Miss Mary Carter, the
stewardess, was found intact. Those
of the two pilots and the Ave passengers
were mangled.
The wreckage was found only 20
miles from Salt Lake City at the top
of Parley's canyon, leading out of
the Salt Lake Valley. Searching
parties had covered hundreds of
squard miles in hunting the lost ship
during the previous 60 hours.
Pilot Don Broughton and Co-pilot
Crfcighton H. Geer, aboard one of the
even planes that pressed the search
today in the face of hazardous flying
weather, were preparing to return to
their base here when they sighted the
missing craft, lying nose down.
Government expenditures for the
fiscal year have passed the $4,000,000,000
mark.
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Capt. Ecldie Rickenbaker, mail flyer,
crossed from Los Angeles to Newark,
N. J., Monday in 13 hours and 4
minutes in a bi-motored transport
plane, lowering the record for that
typo of plane about seven hours. He
brought 200 pounds of mail and made
only three stops for fuel.
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Three Georgia brothers met in Atlanta
en route north to buy goods.
They met friends and in a fashionable
apartment house room they took
"small sips" with these friends. When
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they waked up the three brothers
were shy $9,156.
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